New Approaches to Ethnic and Masculinity Studies

Robert F. Reid-Pharr, director of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) at the City University of New York (CUNY) will speak about the new perspectives in ethnic and masculinity studies in the seminar "New Approaches to Ethnic and Masculinity Studies". Linking political, personal, social, intellectual, emotional, and erotic aspects, Reid-Pharr will problematize, from a queer perspective, what it means to be male, black, and gay in a racist, heterosexual, and postmodern society. Reid-Pharr is a specialist on Afro-American culture and on race and sexuality studies. He is the author of Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American (1999); Black, Gay, Man: Essays (2001); and Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (2007). The seminar will be held in English and is part of the research project "Men in Fiction: Toward a History of Masculinity Through U.S. Literature and Cinema, 20th and 21st Centuries". Attendance by invitation; please contact Àngels Carabí: acarabi@ub.edu.